Turbulent Times Chapter 1202: The mind of a powerful family and Li Yuan’s

Taiyuan City is divided into two counties, one is Taiyuan County and the other is Jinyang County. Wang's ancestral home is in Taiyuan County, and Pei's mansion is in Jinyang County.

On the second day when Wang Junlin led the Far Eastern soldiers to Taiyuan City, rumors began to spread in Taiyuan that there was not enough food, and all the food was only for the army, and the people would fend for themselves.

I don't know where this rumor came from. Anyway, it intensified and spread wider and wider, and it was taken over by everyone in the city overnight.

In the end, I don't know who started it, who fanned the wind, and who lit the fire. In short, the rice shops in the city broke out on a large scale. .

Moreover, not only the rice shop and other grain stores, but also the livestock, horse and meat shops near the rice shop, in short, all the streets or shops that can provide food have also been hit one after another, not to mention the money and goods being robbed. There are also many people in Taiyuan City who were trampled or crushed, and even clashed and killed.

Even after a day of riots, thousands of people, refugees and businessmen were injured and dozens of people died.

After Li Shentong's death, he took charge of the army as a matter of course. After hearing the news, Li Jiancheng, who was in charge of guarding the city, was frightened and angry, but reacted quickly. He sent a full 5,000 troops to patrol the whole city immediately. Suppressed, restored order, and continued to maintain order.

However, although the order was forcibly restored, the price of rice and other grains in Taiyuan City has once again skyrocketed several times, or even more than ten times, due to the impact of this, and Doumi has exceeded 500 yuan.

The public resentment immediately boiled over.

You know, in troubled times for many years, ordinary people don't have much concept of family and country.

Of course, even if some people have the concept of family and country, if they face the possibility of starving to death for themselves and their families, they can't take care of that much.

So, under the guidance of a dark hand and the secret push of Wang and Pei, all the people in Taiyuan city directed their anger and resentment at the guards and Tang Wangshizi Li Jiancheng.

Because of this, there were even several incidents of civilians attacking soldiers. As a last resort, Li Jiancheng, who was extremely angry, sent another 5,000 troops to patrol the city.

It is not known whether the civilians who attacked the soldiers were real civilians.

As a result, only 10,000 people were assigned to patrol and maintain order, leaving only 70,000 troops for Li's army guarding the city and the troops stationed at the four city gates.

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Wang Junlin's troops are limited, so the more than 40,000 troops are only divided into two parts, stationed in the west and south respectively. The north and east of Taiyuan City are not even intercepted by any soldiers from the Far East Army. In fact, anyone in the city can escape at any time. To go out, but Li Jiancheng closed the city gate tightly to prevent the people in the city from coming out.

At this time, Wang Junlin was having a meeting with the generals in the big tent of the Chinese Army, and the people from the Military Intelligence Office introduced the current situation in Taiyuan City as usual, and Wang Shiqing and Pei Yuanqing each talked about what they were doing in the city Great contribution to things and preparations to make.

Wang Junlin waited for everyone to understand the situation in Taiyuan City, and said: "Taiyuan City is the foundation of Li Yuan's army. It has been in operation for many years, with a large population and sufficient supplies. In a sense, we have occupied the entire east of the river.”

If the battle for Hedong is likened to a game of chess, then capturing Taiyuan City is undoubtedly the most critical step in this game of chess. Although a game of chess will not be completed in two or three moves, capturing Taiyuan City is like capturing the next big one. Long, the general trend has been achieved, the whole chess game will be smooth, and the subsequent capture and victory will be a matter of course.

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Wang's Mansion is the largest mansion in Taiyuan City, covering an area of ​​135 mu, of which 43 mu is designated as Wang School, which was established by the younger brother of Wang Xu, the head of the Wang clan and a famous Confucian in the world. During the period of Emperor Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Tong, who served as the governor of Chang'an and had dealt with Wang Junlin who had just come to this world for more than a year, presided over it. There were more than 2,000 scholars studying in Wang Xue alone.

Because the Taiyuan Wang's mansion is the Wang's ancestral home, there are more than a thousand Wang's children in the Wang's mansion alone, and there are more than 3,000 Wang's children separated from Taiyuan City.

A considerable part of these people are in Taiyuan Prefecture or

The two counties under the jurisdiction of Taiyuan Prefecture are officials and officials. As for the county soldiers and county soldiers, many people are military officers, and there are four or five senior generals above the captaincy.

At the same time that Wang Junlin was summoning the generals to discuss matters in the Far East Army camp outside the city, a surviving elder of Wang Xu, the head of the Wang clan in Taiyuan City, was celebrating his birthday. In the mansion, the Wang family then held a secret meeting.

After the birthday banquet, each of the Wang family's children returned to their posts with their own tasks.

Similar things happened in Pei's mansion long before Wang's mansion.

However, because Pei Ji and the people from the Military Intelligence Office planned to blow up Li Shentong to death, although Li Jiancheng was fooled into suppressing the matter, all the blame was placed on the spies of the Far East Army in the city. Li's supernatural powers, of course, are for the purpose of framing the Pei family and causing dissension. This explanation seems to be logical and very reasonable.

However, Li Shentong has many confidantes and officers in the army. These people still have doubts about the Pei family, and they sent people to investigate secretly, so the various things of the Pei family these days have been kept extremely secret.

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The battle against the Far Eastern Army by the Fen River failed, and more than 50,000 people were lost. Only more than 40,000 people retreated to Taiyuan City. Immediately afterwards, the news that Li Shentong, the coach of the North Route Army, was killed by the Far Eastern Army spies finally reached Chang'an three days later. .

It immediately brought a new shock to the Li Yuan Group. Li Yuan's civil and military officials were panicked. The children left Chang'an City and went to Fanyang County, and even went directly to Luliang County and Xinkou County occupied by the Far Eastern Army.

Outside the Hall of Tai Chi, the grandson Shunde paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, and the anxiety in his heart made him sigh in a low voice from time to time. After Li Shimin, who had been given high hopes by the Li Yuan Group, was defeated in the east, he expected Wang Junlin Sooner or later they will reach the city of Taiyuan.

However, he did not expect that Li Shentong would be killed by the spies of the Far East Army.

Although Li Jiancheng performed well at ordinary times, it was in the aspect of governing political affairs. Li Jiancheng had never had the experience of leading troops alone on the battlefield.

Therefore, Changsun Shunde really didn't have much confidence in Li Jiancheng for how long Taiyuan City could be defended.

Among the officials of the Li Yuan Group, there are many people who think the same as the elder Sun Shunde. In fact, Li Yuan himself does not have much confidence in the eldest son's ability to defend Taiyuan City. City, Li Yuan is full of confidence.

At this time, a guard came out in a hurry, bowed to the grandson Shunde and said: "His Royal Highness, please come in, Mr. Grandson!"

Eldest Sun Shunde did not come to Li Yuan on his own initiative, but Li Yuan sent someone to invite him here. Li Yuan may have sensed or guessed that some powerful families had other ideas, so he did not call everyone with great fanfare this time. Instead of discussing matters, he first called his confidants to discuss important matters, and they called one by one.

Eldest Sun Shunde straightened his clothes and hat, and walked quickly to the inner hall worriedly.

In the inner hall of the Tai Chi Hall, Li Yuan was wrapped in a turban and lying on a soft couch. An old doctor with snow-white hair and beard was identifying his pulse. Li Yuan's third son, Li Yuanru, looked gloomy and frowned. Wrinkled into a ball, but looked at the doctor without worry, not knowing what to think.

Eldest Sun Shunde saw a trace of cruelty from the depths of Li Yuanji's eyes.

The old doctor put down Li Yuan's hand and said with a smile: "My lord is in good health and there is nothing serious about it. It's just a moment of extreme anger that caused colic pain in my heart. As long as you relax your mind and rest for two days, your body will recover soon. Fully restored."

"Thank you, Doctor Liu."

Li Yuan then ordered his third son: "Yuanji, send Dr. Liu out, and give him ten taels of silver."

"Thank you, my lord." The Doctor Liu hurriedly postponed, "Your lord, this is the job of a villain, and I dare not accept the reward."

"This is a little wish from this king. You are welcome, Doctor Liu, just accept it!"

Eldest Sun Shunde listened to the conversation between Li Yuan and Dr. Liu outside the door, secretly admired that Li Yuan had completely calmed down, and thought that as long as Li Yuan did not panic and calmed down, the situation in front of him would not be so bad that it could not be reversed.

Dr. Liu thanked you and stepped back. At this time, a guard stepped forward and reported: "The king

Grandpa, the eldest grandson is here. "

"Hurry up and ask grandson Shunde to come in."

Li Yuan regained his energy and struggled to sit up. Two concubines beside him hurriedly helped him up, and wrapped his turban for him. The eldest grandson Shunde walked in, bowed and said: "For humble duties, please refer to His Royal Highness Tang Wang." .”

"Son Aiqing, please sit down!" Li Yuan ordered his concubine again, "Go and pour two cups of tea."

Eldest Sun Shunde and Li Yuan are old friends, so he sat down directly. Seeing Li Yuan's sick face, he asked cautiously: "I met the third son and old doctor Liu just now. I heard that the prince fell ill. Is it important?"

Li Yuan showed a look of shame on his face, and sighed: "This is a heart disease. The situation in Hedong is getting worse and worse. My brother Shentong was killed by the Far East Army spies. There are less than 50,000 elite soldiers on the 100,000 North Road. Luliang County and Xin Kou County has been snatched by the Far Eastern Army. Even though Shimin’s Eastern Front has not lost a single county, it has also suffered a defeat. The Longguan Marquis Junji has not wiped out the Far Eastern Army’s special forces that have cut off the supply road. The grain and grass in the pass can last for ten days at most, if the grain road cannot be opened after ten days, Hou Junji can only be forced to abandon Longguan, otherwise there will be big troubles."

Speaking of this, Li Yuan let out a long sigh, and continued: "Oh! Can Shunde make a good plan to save the current crisis?"

Li Yuan seems to be calm, but that's just because he has a good temper. Not much else, let's talk about all the difficulties, and only hope that the resourceful elder Sun Shunde can give him a good plan to get rid of the predicament in front of him.

How can Changsun Shunde not know what Li Yuan said? When he came, he thought about it all the way. As long as Shizi can stick to Taiyuan City, drag Wang Junlin, and stabilize the current situation in Hedong, then we will free up our hands to open up the grain road leading to Longguan, first keep the pass, and then find a way to rescue Taiyuan."

Li Yuan was silent. He knew that the elder Sun Shunde was right. He really has no confidence in his talent in this area.

As for sending reinforcements, they would not be the opponents of the Far Eastern Army without the lack of them, and the soldiers and horses they sent were simply food deliveries.

But they can't get it out if there are too many. Of course, the newly established 100,000 recruits are quite a lot, but with the combat power of the recruits, even if 100,000 troops are sent to rescue Taiyuan City, they are probably sent to Wang Junlin. vegetable.

You must know that the 100,000 troops led by Li Shentong were elite soldiers, and they didn't fight the 50,000 men of the Far East Army head-on and ended in a disastrous defeat.

"Shunde, the king is really worried after Jianjian, Wang Junlin has many tricks, and..." Li Yuan hesitated for a while, waved his hands left and right to let the concubines, servants and guards go out, and then Only then said: "Besides, this king suspects that the Pei family and the Wang family may have disagreed. If these two families surrender to Wang Junlin and cooperate with Wang Junlin, it will be too difficult to defend Taiyuan City."

Eldest Sun Shunde's face changed slightly when he heard the words, he frowned tightly and pondered for a while, then said gloomyly: "The prince's suspicion is probably true. It is true that Wang and Pei are honest to Wang Junlin in order to protect the family. The possibility is too great, and the old man can even be sure that they will surrender to Wang Junlin, and I ask the prince to send a messenger to remind the prince immediately."

Li Yuan said solemnly: "When I received the news of Taiyuan being besieged as early as yesterday, I sent a messenger to go to Taiyuan city at a speed of 800 miles, but I'm afraid it will be too late."

At this time, Li Yuanji had returned after sending off Dr. Liu, and as soon as he entered the door, he said loudly: "Father, give the boy 50,000 horses, and the boy will immediately go to Hedong, and he will be able to rescue Taiyuan and defeat Wang Junlin."

Li Yuan frowned tightly, with deep disappointment in his eyes, he couldn't help scolding: "Yuanji, what nonsense are you talking about? If you can defeat the Far Eastern Army with 50,000 troops, your uncle with supernatural powers would have defeated it long ago." The king is coming."

The expression on the face of the elder Sun Shunde next to him remained the same, but he shook his head secretly in his heart. The three sons of Tang Wang, the eldest son is good at managing politics, and he is considered a qualified son. The second son is good at strategy, training soldiers, and fighting. Yes, he is an all-rounder.